Carl Setzer

I'm a Mac guy. This was typed on a Macbook Pro, which is my second Macbook. Before that was an iBook, and before that was a Powerbook. And (yes, AND...) before that was, well, another Powerbook. And that's just my laptops. I've owned a Mac LC, iMac, eMac and a Mini. I just upgraded my iPhone from the 3gs to the 4s. I've been using .Mac since it was free, upgraded to MobileMe and now am on iCloud. So, that said, I've been annoyed with iCloud. My main beef has been with calendaring. My wife and I use invites to keep track of each our commitments. Once I upgraded to iCloud, my invites to my wife stopped going through. For us, that's a huge minus. Fortunately, Apple has resolved this. But big problem. But this break down reflects poor execution. Part ii of my MobileMe/iCloud beef is with the website. The web tool for this, well, stinks. It's slow and clunky. If any Apple hardware had the same design "afterthought" effect, it would be scrapped. Comp...

To answer a requst via Twitter, here is the quick & dirty way to export photos. For this example, we're putting the pictures on iDisk (MobileMe, if you will). Open iPhoto, then "File": Then select "Export": Then "File Export": Lastly, Choose "iDisk", or wherever you want to save the files:

Hey folks, there's a nasty Mac specific trojan running through the wild. It looks to be mostly transmitted by social engineering means. Particularly, with alarming "virus alert" messages from an infected website demanding you install MacProtector, MacSecurity, or MacDefendor. If you have this beast, I recommend following the instructions posted in Apple's forum . There are a few discussions about this going on over the web right now. I came across this via Ed Bott's pieces today over at ZDNet ( #1 & #2 ). Bott's replies to John Gruber's "Wolf" post @ Daring Fireball has birthed some interesting discussion, including a clever rip by Walt Mosspuppet . In the end, it seems to be more of the old Mac vs. PC bickering that's been going on for decades. My concern, at this point, is that there are those who think that the Mac OS "superiority" towards virus and hack exploits makes them immune from concern. There ARE Mac viri o...

As much as I love the Mac OS, and Macs in general, I'm finding myself using Vista much more. Simply, it works better with everything that I need to do right now. Several employment applications are IE only. There have been several skills tests that have only worked on Windows as well. Though it makes me a little sad, at least I'm not one of the Windows bashers who has to eat his words. *Ahem*